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How to connect a box to a computer with an HDMI cable

Totolito91 Posted messages 8 Status Member -  
Totolito91 Posted messages 8 Status Member -
Hello everyone,

I can't get the TV image on my computer.

Let me explain. I just had a BBox Miami installed. I don't have a TV yet, so I'd like my computer to serve as a TV screen. However, when I connect my computer via HDMI, I can't get the image from the decoder...

Who can help me... I want to be able to watch rugby... ;-)

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    Judge_DT Posted messages 27651 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   10 013
     
    Hello,

    Connect the computer via "HDMI"?

    First: what type of computer?

    An "HDMI" IN or OUT port?

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    1. Totolito91 Posted messages 8 Status Member
       
      It's an HP running Windows 10
      Plug, cable... what's the difference? I have a cable with the same connector on both ends...
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      1. Judge_DT Posted messages 27651 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   10 013 > Totolito91 Posted messages 8 Status Member
         
        Because the cable is an "HDMI" cable with "HDMI" connectors.

        The plugs can be IN (PUT) or OUT (PUT). In other words, they can output an image or receive an image via an HDMI connector.

        HP... it doesn’t tell me if it is desktop or portable?

        If it's a laptop, it likely has an HDMI OUT; you will never see the image on the computer with that plug.

        To have the image, the decoder needs to connect to a screen, going from its HDMI OUT (PUT) to the HDMI IN (PUT) of the screen.

        If you connect HDMI OUT to HDMI OUT... you will never get an image.
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      2. Totolito91 Posted messages 8 Status Member > Judge_DT Posted messages 27651 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention  
         
        It's a laptop
        I suppose, of course, that an HDMI out and in don't have the same "head"... Because if they aren't supposed to have the same head, then I'm out of luck...
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      3. Judge_DT Posted messages 27651 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   10 013 > Totolito91 Posted messages 8 Status Member
         
        What do you mean by "not the same head"?

        The HDMI connector is unique, it is not the connector that indicates whether it's IN or OUT, but what uses the connector and where it is located.

        The HDMI connector is the same everywhere, regardless of the devices.

        However, TVs are equipped with "HDMI IN" ports because when you connect a cable, it's for the TV to display the image you want to send it, while your TV decoder has an "HDMI OUT" because it is the one that must send the image.

        The OUT sends the image to something and the IN receives the image from that "OUT."

        The laptop has an HDMI port to duplicate the computer's image to an external screen and not to use the laptop as a TV screen or additional monitor.

        So, it has an "OUT" HDMI port like your TV decoder.
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      4. Totolito91 Posted messages 8 Status Member > Judge_DT Posted messages 27651 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention  
         
        I believe so...
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